"Empires preserve their power with the stories that they tell, but just as critical are they stories they don't - the dark silences they impose, the pages they tear out." - David Grann
"Presence of mind and courage in distress, are more than armies to procure success." - John Dryden
"One way of judging how good a man was is by the respect others had for him." - Louis L' Amour
"No one who got the outcomes you want used a hack or a shortcut to get them. Instead, they consistently made progress. You don't build an empire in a day. You build it brick by brick. Day by day." - Shane Parrish
"All science is either physics or stamp collecting." - Ernest Rutherford
"If what you do can be done by someone else, it eventually will be, and for less money." - Sam Altman